Review, etc., appeal. Township ag. grieved may appeal. subject to review and correction, and may be appealed from in the manner hereinafter provided. SEC. 10. Any township assessed a per cent for benefit for the construction of any drain which may conceive itself aggrieved by the assessment made by the missioner, may within fifteen days after the day of review, as provided in section one of this chapter, appeal thereTownship board from as hereinafter provided. The township board of any to authorize supervisor to act, in case of appeal. Probate court of review. ed shall be vested with same pow boards in review ing Individual assessments. of meeting of board fixed by probate court. Notice of appointment. township desiring to take such appeal shall pass a resolution to that effect, authorizing the supervisor, or in his absence or inability to act, some other member of said board, to make application to the probate court of the proper county for the appointment of a board of review. The probate court upon receipt of such applicaSharapova, tion in writing and containing a copy of the resolution passed by the township board, and signed by the officer authorized to make such application, shall thereupon appoint three competent, disinterested freeholders residing in the county outside of said township, as a board of Persons appoint review. The persons so appointed as aforesaid, shall be vested with the same powers and shall perform the same ers as township duties in regard to the assessment against said township, in the same time and manner in all respects as by this act provided for township boards in reviewing individual Time and place assessments. Upon such appointment being made, the probate court shall by order fix the time and place where said board of review shall meet to review said assessment, which time shall not be less than five days nor more than fifteen days from the date of such appointment. Said township shall thereupon notify such persons in writing of their appointment and the purpose thereof, and the time and place for them to meet as fixed by the probate court, and shall also give like notice to the drain commissioner at least three days before said meeting, and proof of service of said notice on said commissioner shall be required by said board of review in all cases where the said drain commissioner fails to appear at said meeting of In case of failure said board of review. Should any one or all of the persons of persons ap so appointed as a board of review neglect or refuse to act, probate court to or should they be unable to agree in regard to said assessboard of review. ment the probate court shall, upon the showing being made, either that any or all the persons [as] aforesaid appointed have neglected or refused to act, or that they have been unable to agree on said assessment, as the case may be, at once appoint another board of review, as herein before provided, and the time for such second board to act and perform its duties shall be extended not to exceed fifteen days from the date of its appointment. The persons so appointed as a board of review shall receive the sum of three dollars per day for each day actually and necessarily spent in the discharge of their duties as members of said board of reveiw. In case the assessment made by the commissioner is sustained, the township or townships appealing shall be sev pointed to act, appoint new Compensation of members of board. for costs in erally liable for all costs incurred by such appeal, and the when township same proceedings shall be had throughout in all respects in appealing llable said appeal to said probate court, as to benefits and curred. liabilities in case of an appeal to the township board from an individual assessment: Provided, That in case Proviso as to two or more townships appeal from the same assess-assessment. ment, only one board of review shall be appointed to review the assessment against the the several townships: And provided further, That the board of review herein Further proviso provided for may adjourn any hearing before them hearing. from time to time as justice may require not exceeding in all ten days from the date of their first meeting. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 4, 1895. appeal from as to adjourned [ No. 112. ] AN ACT to set aside certain submerged lands in Lake Erie and Detroit river lying east of and adjacent to Monroe and Wayne counties, for public shooting grounds, to make it unlawful to cut and destroy the rushes and other submarine vegetation on such submerged lands and to provide a penalty therefor. and or hunting SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Oertain lake That all that part of Lake Erie lying adjacent to the submerged surveyed lands of Monroe and Wayne counties and any submerged lands within the surveyed lines of said counties and connected with Lake Erie and Detroit river, providing such surveyed lands are owned by the State of Michigan, shall be and hereby are set apart and dedicated for dedicated for a public shooting or hunting ground for the benefit and public shooting enjoyment of the people of the State of Michigan, for a grounds, distance extending one mile into said Lake Erie, the eastern line of the submerged lands and waters hereby reserved being one mile distant from the surveyed lines of the east side of said counties and parallel thereto: Provided, That Proviso as to this reservation and dedication shall not interfere with, or public. detract from, any rights or privileges as to fishing now enjoyed by any person, or the public. fishing by the trespassers. SEC. 2. All persons who now have, or shall hereafter who considered locate upon any part of such submerged lands or lake, or Occupy the same except as herein provided, shall be considered trespassers and may be prosecuted as trespassers upon the public lands in the manner now provided by law: Provided, That such waters shall be free for all Proviso as to purposes of navigation. navigation, or destroy rushes SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to cut, or Unlawful to cut otherwise destroy the rushes and other submarine vegeta- or other vegetation growing on such reserve without the consent of the tion. Penalty for violation of act, board of supervisors of said counties, and any person or Section amended. Co-ordinate power of each judge, Proceedings, how regarded. Jurj men. [ No. 113. ] AN ACT to amend section two of act number twenty-five of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, approved March ninth, eighteen hundred eighty-seven, entitled "An act to provide for three additional circuit judges for the third judicial circuit," so as to provide for the appointment of a clerk for the judges of said circuit. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section two of act number twenty-five of the public. acts of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, approved March ninth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An act to provide for three additional circuit judges for the third judicial circuit," be and the same hereby is amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 2. Whenever any cause, matter or proceeding, or any motion, application or other business shall be assigned to one of said judges, a journal entry thereof shall be made by the clerk of the court, and the said judge shall proceed to hear, try and dispose of the business so assigned to him with the same force and effect as if he were the only judge of said circuit, and subject to and with the power and authority conferred by all the rules of practice, and of the law applicable to circuit courts having only one judge, and thereupon said judge may proceed with the trial or hearing or other business so assigned to him in the principal court room, or in a separate room attended by the clerk, or one of his deputies, and by the sheriff or one or more of his deputies, by a stenographer and by jurymen not engaged in the trial of other causes, if it be a cause to be tried by a jury, and such judge while so sitting for the transaction of business shall have all the powers of any circuit judge sitting in any circuit court in this State, and the proceedings shall be regarded as proceedings of the circuit court had in open court and at a session of the said circuit court. If a sufficient number of jurors shall not be in attendance upon the court and not engaged in the trial of other causes, said judge may direct talesmen to be summoned as required by law. The appoint a clerk, said judges may make rules from time to time in relation This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [ No. 114. ] AN ACT making an appropriation for the current expenses of the Michigan Soldiers' Home, and for the Home for Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, who served in the late civil war, their wives and mothers, for the years one thousand eight hundred ninety-five and one thousand eight hundred ninety-six. for 1895 and SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Appropriation That there be and hereby is appropriated from the gen-10018 eral fund the sum of one hundred and sixty thousand dol lars, for the current expenses of the Michigan Soldiers' Home and other expenses necessary to the maintenance and improvement thereof for the years one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five and one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six: Provided, That of the amount hereby appro- Proviso as to priated it shall not be lawful for the board of managers to amounts to be draw a sum exceeding eighty thousand dollars in the year year. eighteen hundred and ninety-five and the sum of eighty thousand dollars in the year eighteen hundred and ninetysix. drawn each government for general Money received January from the general covered allowances to be fund. State treasury. covered into penses. SEC. 2. The sums hereafter received from the government for all allowances for periods after first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall be into the State treasury, and credited to the general SEC. 3. That there be and hereby is appropriated from Appropriation the general fund the sum of sixteen thousand dollars for for current exthe current expenses of the Home for the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, who served in the late civil war, their wives and mothers, and other expenses necessary to the maintenance and improvement thereof, for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six: Provided, That of the amount hereby appro- Proviso as to priated it shall not be lawful for the board of managers amount amount to be Tax for appropriation. to draw a sum exceeding eight thousand dollars in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and the sum of eight thousand dollars in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six. SEC. 4. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate in the State taxes for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, the sum of eighty-eight thousand dollars, and for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six the sum of eighty-eight thousand dollars, to be assessed, levied and collected as other State taxes are assessed, levied and collected, which sums, when collected, shall be passed to the credit of the general fund to reimburse such fund for the amounts appropriated under the provisions of this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 4, 1895. Appropriation for Michigan Pioneer Society, Purposes of. Number of coples, size of volumes. [ No. 115. ] AN ACT making appropriations for the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan_ enact, That there is hereby appropriated from the general fund to the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars for each of the years eighteen hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to be used in the discretion of the executive committee of said society in collecting, arranging and preserving a library of books, pamphlets, maps, charts, manuscripts, papers, paintings, statuary and other materials illustrative of, and relating to the history of Michigan; to rescue from oblivion the memory of its early pioneers; to procure and preserve narratives of their early exploits, perils, privations, hardy adventures and noble achievements, and also in collecting material of every description relative to the history, genius, progress or decay of our Indian tribes; to exhibit faithfully the past and present resources of Michigan, and for the publication of additional volumes of historical and other material relative to and illustrative of the history of Michigan. Said Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society shall collect, arrange and prepare the materials for said volumes for printing, which shall be printed by the State printer under the direction and superintendence of said society, the cost of printing to be paid out of above appropriation, which volumes of not more than three thousand copies each, and containing not more than seven hundred and thirty pages each, shall be printed and published in the kind of type, quality of |